Chapter 11: The Plan

"Knew you'd figure it out," said Yusuke.

"Well, you didn't give us a hell of a lot of clues," said Rain glaring at her parents.

"Rain, language," said Kurama walking up to his daughter.

"I am over three hundred and forty years old; I can curse if I want to. And I'm mad! Why the hell did you do that?!"

"For you to learn a lesson," said Yusuke walking up to his kids. "You said you wanted to be Tantei, but you were displaying the mental capacity of children, ever for three hundred and thirty eight." He gave his son a look and Raizen chuckled nervously.

"Who's your friend," asked Hiei, glancing at Kurohi. The chimera had slide a few feet from the group, hoping to go unnoticed, and was glancing at Kurama.

"He does look familiar," said Kuwabara. "But I can't figure out where."

Kurama glanced over at Kurohi after giving Rain a good talking to on language and his eyes widened.

"Kuronue?"

"N-no, he was my dad," said Kurohi nervously. "I-I'm Kurohi."

"Inari, Hiei, he looks just like Kuronue!" said Kurama in amazement.

"Kuronue," asked Shiori walking up to her mother. "Your old partner? The one you used to tell us about?"

"He's your father?" asked Rain. Kurohi nodded and was immediately assaulted by Rain. "You idiot! If you told us that we wouldn't have suspected you! I'm going to feed you to my dragon! I KILL YOU!"

She was plucked off by Chuu.

"Easy there, shella," he said. "He may have a good reason."

"And I want to know the reason why you had us tramping around half of Makai looking for you," asked Yukei, glaring at his parents and uncles. Hiei glared back at his son and Yukei hid behind Hina.

"Hey, I'm not a shield!" said his cousin, looking behind her at her Yukei.

"Against Dad, yes you are."

Raizen laughed. "You can act like Hiei-oji all you want, but you can't beat him at his death glare!" he laughed. Yukei glared at the Urameshi son and tackled him.

"I can still beat you!" yelled Yukei.

"I don't think you depleted all of their energy, Chuu," said Yusuke looking up at his stepfather.

"Well, they were good," said Chuu rubbing the back of his neck.

"Gave us a run for our money," said Suzuka rubbing a bruise on his side.

"Let them fight it off," said Touya. "They'll listen when their exhausted."

The other parents had to agree.

"Why are you here, Kurohi-kun," asked Kurama, looking over at his old partner's son.

"Please, Kurama-kun, it's just Kurohi," said the chimera, blushing a little. Kurama chuckled.

"All right, if you call me Kurama."

Kurohi nodded. "Will do. And the reason I'm here is because, well, I wanted to meet you. See my dad used to talk about all the time before he died. To him, you were the closest thing to a friend he had."

Kurama's ears dropped a little at the memory of his old friend and softly smiled. "I felt the same," he said and smiled down at Kurohi. "It's an honor to meet you, Kurohi. You're welcome at our castle any time."

Kurohi chuckled. "Uh, how about a permanent residence? See, I have no home anymore, and no job."

Kurama chuckled and turned to his mate. "What do you say, Hiei? Don't we need a new guard?"

Hiei scoffed and crossed his arms. "The ones we have are lacking basic intelligence. It won't hurt to add another."

Kurohi looked at the adult in confusion as they laughed. A knock sounded and everyone turned to look at the door. Koenma stood at the doorway and surveyed the audience. Next to him was Botan with a bundle in her hands.

"Are we interrupting anything," asked Koenma with a smirk.

"Koenma-oji-sama! Botan-oba-chan!" called the children and ran over to hug their demi-god aunt and uncle. They also passed around Emma and said hello to the baby.

"Did they pass," asked Koenma walking over to the adults.

"They could have done better," said Hiei, "but they'll learn."

"We didn't exactly give them a hard test," said Kurama. All the children looked up at them.

"It was a test," asked Tama.

"Since your parent's retirement, I have lost my best detective team," said Koenma. "Through we try now to keep the demons out of Ningenkai thanks to the treaty, demons still move in and try to take over. I need a new detective team. Granted I didn't think we'd get eight, but it's better then nothing."

"We'll work in pairs," said Rain excitedly.

"Or groups," suggested Shiori. And soon all eight demon children were making up plans on how to work together, all excited about their new job.

"Were we ever this young," asked Yusuke to Kurama.

"Unfortunately, we were younger," said Kurama with a smile.

TBC

In Lost and Found I included a song story at the end. It seemed only fair that I do the same here, only this one features Hiei with Rain!